[Ole Okie]

University of Oklahoma as saying he hoped to build a university of which the football team could be proud.

That was President George L. Cross, who was an excellent university president. The time was approximately 1949. I heard Pres. Cross say that very thing.

President Cross had the great good sense to hire Bud Wilkinson as football coach, and Bud built a team which had winning streaks of 31 and 47 games.

That was then. This is now. And President David Boren and his predecessors have presided over the building of an university whose academics make us indeed proud.

And Prexy Boren also had the great good sense to hire Bob Stoops as head football coach. Bob has built a football team of which the University can again be very proud.

[CatoRenasci]

Thanks for the history. I was in stationed at Ft. Sill for a couple of years during the Switzer era. I'm a college football fan, and like good, hard, well-fought games. I watched games live over the yearsr in the Pac 10, the Southern Conference, the Big Ten, the Ivy League, and others, but I've never seen anything like what I saw in Norman. I don't like the fans booing injured opposition players off the field, and cheering when there is an announcement that an injured opponent has a serious injury, which I witnessed in Norman. The crowd was bloodthristy, not merely enthusiastic. I've seen the blood lust in a mob, and it was the same thing.

I don't know about now, or even the distant past. I've only heard good about Bud Wilkinson as a coach and supporter of good sportsmanship.

[buffyt]

I met Bud Wilkinson. There was some kind of drawing for a basketball and my older sister won, so we got to meet him and have our photo taken with him. That was in the 1950s.

[buffyt]

We have a shirt that reads

"STOOPS WE DID IT AGAIN!"

and one that reads
"BEAT OU - BEEN THERE DONE THAT"

But honestly Ole Okie, I am VERY vervous about the Sat. game. Since we have won the last two and we have a really good team this year. In all the years I have been an OSU fan, this is the best team I can remember. When I went to school at OSU we couln't catch a pass!

I may not watch the game. I may go mow the lawn, I get too upset watching the bedlam game!